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...long as I am President of the University, I can assure you there will be no policy of inquiry into the political views of members of the staff and no watching over their activities as private citizens,” Conant said...
When Jenner and Velde began their investigations into communist influence on college campuses, Conant emphatically denied harboring communists on the faculty, but he also criticized the probes for interfering with universities’ academic freedom...
...There are no known Communists on the Harvard staff, and I do not believe there are any disguised Communists either,” Conant wrote in his final presidential report...
...according to Brandeis historian Morton Keller, co-author of Making Harvard Modern: The Rise of America’s University, when Furry invoked the Fifth before the HUAC, Conant wanted the Corporation to revoke his tenure...
...Conant stepped down from the presidency and was replaced by Nathan M. Pusey ’28, a public foe of McCarthy. Unlike Conant, a scientist who took part in the Manhattan Project, Pusey did not have a background in national security and did not believe professors should be fired for taking the Fifth...